Have you ever asked why so many of the loudest, but aged voices, in media came from country towns or a working-class background? They were apprentices and the local paper in town was a means to not being a farm worker or laborer. They didn’t go to university they were trained in verifying and reporting facts not simply the secondhand fantasies and rumors of who said what to whom. That certainly changed when journalism became a university degree and facts were shown the back door to opinion a commodity in itself to be bought and sold..

It’s not just the obscenely wealthy owners of the mass media who are protecting their class interests — it’s the reporters, editors and pundits as well.

All the most widely amplified voices in our society are the celebrities, journalists, pundits and politicians who’ve proven themselves to be reliable stewards of the matrix of narrative control which keeps the public jacked in to the mainstream worldview.

Is it any wonder, then, that all the sources we’ve been taught to look to for information continually feed us stories which give the impression that the status quo is working fine and this is the only way things can possibly be?

Is it any wonder that the mass media support all U.S. wars and cheerlead all imperial agendas?

This is how things were set up to be. Our media act like propagandists for a tyrannical regime because that’s exactly what they are.

Source: Caitlin Johnstone: Mainstream Journalists